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Summary: Falling In and Out of Love
Review: End of Dreams is a novel that deals with the love life of Cameron Dickerson. He is a man that is re-entering the singles scene after a recent divorce. Through a series of flashbacks, we see how Cameron met, fell in love with, and eventually fell out of love with his ex-wife, Mara, while we simultaneously see how he is coping with being single and dating again. The book is very descriptive, almost to a fault, but gives the reader a real sense of who Cameron is and what his motivations are. D.C. Douglass does a wonderful job of taking the reader through the journey of a relationship gone wrong: the meeting and courtship, marriage, and ultimately the divorce. He also shows that there is indeed life after a divorce or break-up. I recommend this novel to anyone who has ever been unlucky in love as well as anyone who is looking for a realistic view of relationships. I look forward to future works from this author. Reviewed by Latoya Carter-Qawiyy
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Summary: Falling In and Out of Love
Review: End of Dreams is a novel that deals with the love life of Cameron Dickerson. He is a man that is re-entering the singles scene after a recent divorce. Through a series of flashbacks, we see how Cameron met, fell in love with, and eventually fell out of love with his ex-wife, Mara, while we simultaneously see how he is coping with being single and dating again. The book is very descriptive, almost to a fault, but gives the reader a real sense of who Cameron is and what his motivations are. D.C. Douglass does a wonderful job of taking the reader through the journey of a relationship gone wrong: the meeting and courtship, marriage, and ultimately the divorce. He also shows that there is indeed life after a divorce or break-up. I recommend this novel to anyone who has ever been unlucky in love as well as anyone who is looking for a realistic view of relationships. I look forward to future works from this author. Reviewed by Latoya Carter-Qawiyy
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Summary: Don't Sleep On This One ...
Review: I met the author at a First Friday earlier this month, liked the book cover, decided to buy it, and I gotta tell ya ... this boy is bad. He laid it down from front to back. I'm not a big reader, mainly because I don't find many books that keep me interested, but this one had me turning the pages until there were none left to turn. The story revolved around the main character, Camron. It starts out where he and his ex-wife have divorced and he's back out there doing the damn thang ... you know, gettin' his swerve on. Then from there Douglass takes the reader back through the marriage while at the same time showing how the main character's life in the present time is progressing with a new female he starts getting involved with (I don't want to give too much away). It's very cool though the way the author transitions from the past to the present to the past and so on. Was Camron a player? At times yes, at times no ... it kinda depended on his situation at the time. I mean the story is real and has a lot of layers to it, so you can't simply say he was this type of person or that type of person. I gotta say too I was really feeling a lot of the scenes because, living here in the Twin Cities, I recognized a lot of the locations - the clubs and restaurants. Anyway, like I said, I don't read a lot of books, but I have read a few of the other male authors out there ... Eric Jerome Dickey, E. Lynn Harris, and a couple of others who's names I can't recall right now. But I gotta tell ya, none of 'em ain't got nothing on D.C. Douglass. Remember that name because I predict in another year or two this brother will have blown up.
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Summary: Finally a book written from a MALE's perspective
Review: Normally I avoid this genre like the plague because I often find the stories to be predicable and they tend to placate towards women. See E Jerome Dickey & Michael Baisden(sighing) as reference. However this was definitely written from a male's standpoint and call me bias but I found it entertaining. While there were instances where I thought the main character was a bit too corny (writing cute little anecdotes on the back of his business cards when he met his prospect, my god how "cheesy") there were also instances where if you read between the lines one could definitely learn something. Particularly when he & Mara were arguing about money issues while they were married. The moral, they were in such a rush to be married whether that was LOVE or to alleviate the stress and financial hardship of a wedding. They never communicated much about their different financial perspectives which I believe was one of the underlying causes starting the downward spiral of their relationship. At times I appreciated the author's detail because I reside in the city where the setting takes place and can relate to EVERY venue, restaurant, street, etc he mentions. However there were instances where the detail was a bit much. (see his description of the various complexions of the characters). But my disagreements overall are minute in the grand scheme of things. Camron was FAR from a "playa"(I'm referencing the first review) and if the definition of a "playa" is someone who dates while he's single, then maybe all single men that date should get a "playa's membership" card. Overall "End of Dreams" is the story of a male who falls in love and outta love and has to start over again. Sometimes the most entertaining things have the most simple premises..
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Summary: Finally a book written from a MALE's perspective
Review: Normally I avoid this genre like the plague because I often find the stories to be predicable and they tend to placate towards women. See E Jerome Dickey & Michael Baisden(sighing) as reference. However this was definitely written from a male's standpoint and call me bias but I found it entertaining. While there were instances where I thought the main character was a bit too corny (writing cute little anecdotes on the back of his business cards when he met his prospect, my god how "cheesy") there were also instances where if you read between the lines one could definitely learn something. Particularly when he & Mara were arguing about money issues while they were married. The moral, they were in such a rush to be married whether that was LOVE or to alleviate the stress and financial hardship of a wedding. They never communicated much about their different financial perspectives which I believe was one of the underlying causes starting the downward spiral of their relationship. At times I appreciated the author's detail because I reside in the city where the setting takes place and can relate to EVERY venue, restaurant, street, etc he mentions. However there were instances where the detail was a bit much. (see his description of the various complexions of the characters). But my disagreements overall are minute in the grand scheme of things. Camron was FAR from a "playa"(I'm referencing the first review) and if the definition of a "playa" is someone who dates while he's single, then maybe all single men that date should get a "playa's membership" card. Overall "End of Dreams" is the story of a male who falls in love and outta love and has to start over again. Sometimes the most entertaining things have the most simple premises..
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